ATLeagle {l Wrote}:MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:ATLeagle {l Wrote}:You are all undervaluing Power 5 jobs. Debate the worst all you want but it is all subjective. It is like saying which winning Powerball ticket is the worst. You still have a winning lottery ticket. There are only so many Power 5 jobs and hundreds of guys who want the money and their shot. You only turn down a Power 5 job is you already have one somewhere else that is more secure.
I appreciate that fact, but we're ranking the P5 jobs.
Right and it is basically subjective. Take Tom Hermann. He picked Texas over LSU. I could give you ten reasons why LSU is better, but he wanted Texas. Look at Gary Anderson leaving Wisconsin for Oregon State. He left a "better" job because of fit. He didn't want to deal with Alvarez and felt more comfortable on the West Coast and a school where he could recruit JuCos.
Purdue might have more money than BC, but it is a much harder place to win and has been a career killer. BC has seen coaches move on to other jobs and have success. But my original point is that most of these coaches are dumb/arrogant enough to think they will be the next Tom Coughlin when they could just as easily be Spaz. They just want a shot.
In the ACC alone, BC is better than Wake and Duke (Cutcliffe is an outlier). You could argue that BC is better job than Pitt, Cuse, NCSU, and Virginia. It depends on the coach and what he is looking for.
BC needs to make the job better and we haven't made great hires, but that doesn't mean the job is bad.
First... BC coaches haven't "moved on to other jobs and have success". Well... not since Coughlin at least. BC basically represents a coach's apex. That's the euphamistic way of saying it has been a career killer.
Second... I have said that you can make a strong argument that it is currently the worst P5 job. I'm not saying it has always been that way. I'm not saying that there isn't immense potential. I'm saying that given the significant institutional hurdles that have been self-imposed, it is a job that is significantly hamstrung.